Sid Sijbrandij

It, I, I've never been into poetry, but that, that looked like poetry to me.

So I was like, finally it's, it's

from tedious.

It's become a thing of beauty.

I can see the beauty.

I want to master it.

I want to get good at that.

So I quit the submarine company and started to become a freelance Ruby on Rails developer.

And that's when I saw GitLab.

And when I saw GitLab, it was already a year old, but I thought it makes so much sense that something you collaborate with is something you can collaborate on, that this is open source, this is going to have a bright future, and I'm going to start a company around it.

So there's over 100,000 organizations with millions of users using GitLab.

Most are on the open source edition, but we've got over 5,000 organizations, mostly the larger ones, paying us for one of our proprietary versions.

It used to be like that, that most of the people were coming in already using the open source, but we're seeing more and more people that have not used GitLab before that really want to modernize their DevOps workflow, want to modernize how they do engineering, and that come in, look at everything at the market, and just select GitLab right off the bat.

Yeah, that's too aggressive.

Volume discounts, right?

We were talking, it's not even in the same ballpark.

We don't disclose our revenue numbers, but it's going at a very healthy pace.

In the last five years, we've doubled our incremental ACV every single year and we're on track.

do that.

It's better.